the ninety-seventh; and when we cross that white oak mountain

[gunslinger]

[Ino]

Where are you guys at now? I hope everything's okay and that nobody's gotten sick or anything.

[/Ino]

[Allen]

Everything okay on your end?

[/Allen]

[ dictated; filtered from enemies and first gens ]

So many people have gone away recently that it seems like it's hard to stay in a good mood, even with nice weather and carnivals. But it's probably a lot worse for all of those who are kinda new around here. In either case I think it helps to do activities that made you happy back home.

What would you normally do during the summer? It's almost over, after all.

Comments

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Ah...I think so. Merlin's all right, anyway.

How about you?

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

All right? So he's actually Merlin?

Well, I'm worried about everyone...including you. But I'm just fine.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

He seems to think so, and that's his name on the door.

You must worry a lot. I'm fine though!

Jr.

[ino]

We're still at the coast. Nothing's happened since we got here ... everyone seems fine and it's been honestly kind of boring.

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

Well you guys like trouble.

Ino

[gunslinger]

Well you know what they say about the calm before a storm.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Hey! I don't like trouble!

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

You know what I mean. I can never leave for long.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Well have you ever considered that maybe you're the one that likes trouble then?

[Allen Walker: pinnacle of maturity. ]

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

Trouble and I have had a complicated love affair for decades, Allen. Try that one on somebody else.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Ah, right. I had forgotten..

[Decades...]

Hey, are you thirty now?

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

...Yeah, that's about right.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Ah...that's rather odd to think about.

I mean- I know you're older than you look! But...I always assume you're around my age! You know?

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

[ Not really... ]

I'll take that as a compliment.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Oh- it meant to be! Really!

[a sigh; oh right back on topic]

Merlin doesn't seem to be...Arthur's Merlin. He's too different to be him. But...I don't know if it means he's not who he says he is.

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

[ A disgruntled mutter sounds out. Mixed feelings about this! ]

It's hard to push away the feelings I first had when Morgana secretly told me about him poisoning her. Even knowing everything that's happened since then, that Merlin was probably in the right...

I still want to shoot the guy in the fucking face.

[ Which is hilarious since he keeps telling Morgana to behave. See above: (love affair with trouble). ]

So it's good this guy isn't the same one. But I still know very few incarnations that have Merlin and Morgana getting along.

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

[Just take it as you don't sound like an old man!!]

I know...but it'd only be fair to make sure to hear his side of the story first if he did come here. We've only heard Morgana's, after all.

[yep sounds about right. he's not even surprised]

Neither have I. But I doubt we could convince him to simply avoid her.

[Allen]

[gunslinger]

Did he sound like the trouble making type?

[Jr.]

[save_the_souls]

Not quite.

More...the calculating sort.

Jr.

[ino]

Of course I do. But for now, everything is fine.

Ino

[gunslinger]

Did you guys get any further in deciphering anything?

Jr.

[ino]

Not that I know of. Someone's working on the symbols all over the cave and stuff, but the notes are basically useless outside of what can be made out.